And they all came round me out of all the cottages, and many wept over their sins, and have since been joined to the Lord.

That was the beginning of my preaching, sir, and I've preached ever since." Dinah had let her work fall during this narrative, which she uttered in her usual simple way, but with that sincere articulate, thrilling treble by which she always mastered her audience.

She stooped now to gather up her sewing, and then went on with it as before.

Mr.Irwine was deeply interested.

He said to himself, "He must be a miserable prig who would act the pedagogue here: one might as well go and lecture the trees for growing in their own shape." "And you never feel any embarrassment from the sense of your youth--that you are a lovely young woman on whom men's eyes are fixed ?" he said aloud.
"No, I've no room for such feelings, and I don't believe the people ever take notice about that.